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The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

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Author: Winterson, Jeanette
Series title:The Myths Ser.
ISBN:978-1-84195-799-9
Publication Date:Sep 2006
Publisher:Canongate Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.00
Book Description:

With wit and verve, the prize-winning author ofSexing the CherryandOranges Are Not the Only Fruitbrings the mythical figure of Atlas into the space age and sets him free at last. In her retelling of the story of a god tricked into holding the world on his shoulders and his brief reprieve, she sets difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion, how we choose our own destiny and at the same time can liberate ourselves from our seeming fate. Finally in paperback,Weightis a...
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Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5 x 7.75 x 0.45 Inches
Book Weight:0.344 Pounds
Author Biography
Winterson, Jeanette (Author)
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959 and graduated from St. Catherine's College, Oxford.

Her book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, is a semi-autobiographical account of her life as a child preacher (she wrote and gave sermons by the time she was eight years old). The book was the winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction and was made into an award-winning TV movie. The Passion won the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize for best writer under thirty-five, and Sexing the Cherry won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award.

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